Friday, July 28, 2006

The instructor here, Officer Rod Glazer, said he received so many questions about police work from students in the D.A.R.E. anti-drug classes he teaches during the school year that he thought a junior police academy would draw interest.--"It’s really, actually, quite a lot of fun," said Tyler Hall, who will enter sixth grade at Willis Intermediate School this fall. The 11-year-old has boyish braces on his teeth and manly plans for his future.

"I’ve thought about being a Marine, and when there’s no war going on, I’d be a cop." --Yesterday, the students snapped shut their study binders for their next, eagerly awaited lesson — firearm safety and target practice.

They put on protective goggles and aimed a .40-caliber semi-automatic handgun and then an M-16 rifle at a paper target and drilled it with plastic bullets that carried pellets of red paint.

Tyler, a good marksman, was exuberant as his shots tore through the target in red dots.

"Yeah, baby! " he said. "I feel like a young James Bond."

------------------------------------------------Blackhawks patrolling our skies, surveilling the citizens and directing the home-invading ground troops. Our children being seduced into the new Hitler Youth. How much longer will we deny the obvious?

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